Monthly Archives: February 2018

Ujuh Reporter In 2017 there were 32 public schools in the Western Cape which maintained a 100% pass rate over the past five years. This is considered to be one of the most reliable indicators of top performing...

Magalie Bourblanc, University of Pretoria There has been fierce finger pointing across various levels of government in Cape Town’s water crisis. There have also been accusations of a lack of collaboration between the national government, which...

ANC A few minutes ago, Comrade Jacob Zuma announced to the nation that he is resigning as the President of the Republic of South Africa. This decision by President Zuma is consistent with what he had...

Members of the Media, present here, Fellow South Africans, I address you after weeks of speculation about my future as President of the Republic of South Africa. In particular, I make reference to the much publicized...

By: Barrister Austin Okeke The imminent resignation of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma will come to add to a bout of good political news sweeping through the African continent, from the Democratic Republic of Congo to...

PBM Insurance business, Miway, is facing the wrath of the Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini, after a double boo-boo left the King unimpressed and seeking legal action. First, a Miway call centre agent is said to have...

“We are aware that youth groups in countries whose citizens are being maltreated by these little minds are threatening to carry out reprisal attacks on South Africans living in their own countries.” By: PBM The Nigerian...

PBM Money laundering has become a major problem across the globe with hundreds of billions of dollars being sifted out out of countries, mainly poor states, through complicated schemes. An interview with South African Reserve Bank...

By: Justine Sweet Fracking, a process which enables access to shale gas not accessible to conventional drilling operations, is a good example of the environmental, social and economic balancing act required of decision makers. If fracking...

PBM Some Junior officials in the Free State Department of Agriculture could become sacrificial lambs, and their political principals will be untouched, if the Public Protector, Advovate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has her way around the Gupta touched Vrede Integrated...

“If you can urinate (pee) in your (private) garden onto soil it will be absorbed and not present health problems providing the volumes aren’t too high. Spread it around so that it doesn’t get concentrated and...

Vivian Ng, University of Essex and Catherine Kent, University of Essex Smartphones rule our lives. Having information at our fingertips is the height of convenience. They tell us all sorts of things, but the information we...

PBM Four South African companies; Waco Africa (SGB Cape, Tedoc Industries, Mtsweni Corrosion Control, and Superfecta Trading; have landed in hot water with the competition authorities for allegedly masterminding a price fixing and tender collusion scheme around a R4.5...

Ujuh Reporter As worries about Cape Town water crisis mounts, there should also be equal concern about the critical water shortages in provinces such as the Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, says Dawie Maree, Head of Marketing...